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Huh.
May have a line on a job walking dogs, which doesn't sound like much but frankly, anything that doesn't involve high-volume customer service and lets me go home between appointments to take care of household/Dad as needed? I really hope he picks me tomorrow. I like dogs. I can walk twenty minutes and pick up poop and not have to deal with people or being treated as disposable whilst being told to give my all to those who will not forgive my inability to psychically absorb their non-existent training.
ahem. Had that rant before, do not need to repeat.
That said, I'm poking around in my head the old idea of 'why don't I do a webcomic?' Trying to strike a balance between not shooting myself in the foot by thinking 'it'll never get off the ground, you don't have anything coherent' and not shooting myself in the foot by not actually putting in the thought and work to make it good.
Bunch of different original characters ambling about in my head, some from the same world, some not. Foremost are-
1. Noble girl secretly running some sort of theft or information ring behind her father and brothers' backs, probably to help them without them knowing but also to make sure she's got her own means and escape-route to independence. Aided by her pet bard/agent and lover, who, under the fine clothes, chill attitude and noose-broken voice, is a girl herself. All very broody and Princess-Bride 'as you wish' as they probably end up antagonizing the heroes rather than being particularly heroic themselves. Still- thief-and-mage antics. I love these two, but I need a larger thing for them to be a part of.
2. Second Sons- weird idea of having the 'spares' from various fantasy kingdoms brought together to form their own little 'troubleshooting' team for these allied kingdoms. Mostly an exercise in making up odd disparate cultures so far to explain the differences between the different heroes. The wizardess is a princess from a kingdom in the hotter climates. Where she comes from, only boys become priests, so only men become the priest-kings, but they'll often take one of their top generals to wife just to make sure they maintain the support of the military.
One of the warriors is from the isolated Northern Baronies (although they call them their kingdoms, the terminology changes depending on who you're asking since the lowland civilizations think they're teeny)- and as the lowlanders would describe it, they have neither men nor women there- just fierce clannish lords who keep to their snowy keeps and guard their mountain flocks and think the rest of the world is strange for going two-sexed as beasts do. Said warrior's 'second son' status comes from the fact that he is of the sired line, not the borne, to his lord-parent- it's a bit like a bastard line, in that if there's none of the 'legit' line to inherit you're good, but while you have a claim, it's easily overturned. Poor Arrick's just a little touchy about that, and intent on striving to be the best he can be and show he's worthy. Prickly.
Arctic prince- big fellow, strong and enthusiastic, really rocks a polar bear-skin cape. Comes from these huge ships that cruise the ocean.
...need more allied kingdoms/characters.
I need something that will spin these fellows together into a team, and an adventure they can go on.
3. Orcs. Always have weird ideas for orc characters and culture, and wanting to play with something for that.
4. Puss in boots- swashbuckler catgirl pirate. Smuggler, too. Requires an excellent hat.
5. Dragon-skin girl- like a younger, less experienced Maleficient, but ordered by her grandfather to accompany the hero and protect the little squishy git. So she wanders and fights by his side, looking mostly human aside from her coat of scales.
6. Cyberpunk thing- dude who grew up in an MMO his parents invented. Now he's stuck in the 'real' world, wondering just how the hell things got this screwy, and why the hell is he so damn pale for a dark elf, and damnit, didn't he used to be able to play a lute for a living? He's technically very rich, so the rebels who accidentally woke him up are keeping him both for practical reasons and because they feel kinda sorry for this total stranger in a strange land whose 'life' they accidentally fucked up.
Would need a cyberpunk universe and other characters around him, plus an actual story.
Edit- maybe mix it up some with that one AU, so that there's the corporate princess who's been tossed aside for an imagined slight, and now, though she's desperately searching for what's precious to her and antagonizing the heroes, Sully's got a total rescue-the-princess crush on her.
ahem. Had that rant before, do not need to repeat.
That said, I'm poking around in my head the old idea of 'why don't I do a webcomic?' Trying to strike a balance between not shooting myself in the foot by thinking 'it'll never get off the ground, you don't have anything coherent' and not shooting myself in the foot by not actually putting in the thought and work to make it good.
Bunch of different original characters ambling about in my head, some from the same world, some not. Foremost are-
1. Noble girl secretly running some sort of theft or information ring behind her father and brothers' backs, probably to help them without them knowing but also to make sure she's got her own means and escape-route to independence. Aided by her pet bard/agent and lover, who, under the fine clothes, chill attitude and noose-broken voice, is a girl herself. All very broody and Princess-Bride 'as you wish' as they probably end up antagonizing the heroes rather than being particularly heroic themselves. Still- thief-and-mage antics. I love these two, but I need a larger thing for them to be a part of.
2. Second Sons- weird idea of having the 'spares' from various fantasy kingdoms brought together to form their own little 'troubleshooting' team for these allied kingdoms. Mostly an exercise in making up odd disparate cultures so far to explain the differences between the different heroes. The wizardess is a princess from a kingdom in the hotter climates. Where she comes from, only boys become priests, so only men become the priest-kings, but they'll often take one of their top generals to wife just to make sure they maintain the support of the military.
One of the warriors is from the isolated Northern Baronies (although they call them their kingdoms, the terminology changes depending on who you're asking since the lowland civilizations think they're teeny)- and as the lowlanders would describe it, they have neither men nor women there- just fierce clannish lords who keep to their snowy keeps and guard their mountain flocks and think the rest of the world is strange for going two-sexed as beasts do. Said warrior's 'second son' status comes from the fact that he is of the sired line, not the borne, to his lord-parent- it's a bit like a bastard line, in that if there's none of the 'legit' line to inherit you're good, but while you have a claim, it's easily overturned. Poor Arrick's just a little touchy about that, and intent on striving to be the best he can be and show he's worthy. Prickly.
Arctic prince- big fellow, strong and enthusiastic, really rocks a polar bear-skin cape. Comes from these huge ships that cruise the ocean.
...need more allied kingdoms/characters.
I need something that will spin these fellows together into a team, and an adventure they can go on.
3. Orcs. Always have weird ideas for orc characters and culture, and wanting to play with something for that.
4. Puss in boots- swashbuckler catgirl pirate. Smuggler, too. Requires an excellent hat.
5. Dragon-skin girl- like a younger, less experienced Maleficient, but ordered by her grandfather to accompany the hero and protect the little squishy git. So she wanders and fights by his side, looking mostly human aside from her coat of scales.
6. Cyberpunk thing- dude who grew up in an MMO his parents invented. Now he's stuck in the 'real' world, wondering just how the hell things got this screwy, and why the hell is he so damn pale for a dark elf, and damnit, didn't he used to be able to play a lute for a living? He's technically very rich, so the rebels who accidentally woke him up are keeping him both for practical reasons and because they feel kinda sorry for this total stranger in a strange land whose 'life' they accidentally fucked up.
Would need a cyberpunk universe and other characters around him, plus an actual story.
Edit- maybe mix it up some with that one AU, so that there's the corporate princess who's been tossed aside for an imagined slight, and now, though she's desperately searching for what's precious to her and antagonizing the heroes, Sully's got a total rescue-the-princess crush on her.
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Here are some links - http://www.kerlin.de/chronopia/army_black.php
http://www.chronopiaworld.com/artikel.php?id=77
do you know about the artist Fredrik K T Andersson? He dos some realy funny (and good looking) fantasy art among other things orcs. Here is a link - http://andersson.elfwood.com/ (you will find a link to his older art, with more orcs, in his profile)
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